GROWN ABOUT BY FRAGRANT BUSHES - Wallace Stevens Poems

 
 

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GROWN ABOUT BY FRAGRANT BUSHES

Grown about by fragrant bushes,
Sunken in a winding valley,
    Where the clear winds blow
    And the shadows come and go,
    And the cattle stand and low
And the sheep bells and the linnets
    Sing and tinkle musically.
Between the past and the future,
    Those two black infinities
    Between which our brief life
    Flashes a moment and goes out.